Mark Neumann: “So you are telling me then that the system that the Congress has the most influence over is one of the most high priced…”

It passed without a single, solitary Republican vote. I am sure the gentleman from Michigan remembers what I am talking about here. It is the biggest tax increase in American history.

11 years ago in 1987, a Democrat Congress sent President Reagan a massive omnibus bill. It weighed about 24 pounds, had about 2100 pages. And in his State of the Union address the next year, President Reagan took that bill, slammed it on…

I hear this cry from my Republican colleagues and some from the other side as well that we should somehow take the Social Security surplus and use it to cut taxes. Why can we not do it the same way we did last year? We started talking…

My only fear listening to this, most of what you said I agree with wholeheartedly, as you well know, is that this becomes very partisan, and Social Security is too important to become partisan. Many of us Republicans also feel that it is…